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Ericsson, Qualcomm test Cat M1 for Australian telco Telstra

Cat M1 will allow operators to expand cellular-based IoT capabilities Swedish vendor Ericsson and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm successfully executed network and device testing of data communications on Cat M1 for Australian operator Telstra. The demo, which took place at Ericsson headquarters in Sweden, used the MDM9206...

Qualcomm announces first gigabit LTE device and network on path to 5G

Qualcomm, Telstra, Ericsson and Netgear announce world’s first gigabit class LTE device and gigabit-ready network HONG KONG — At the 4G/5G Summit today, Qualcomm announced it has worked with Telstra, Ericsson and Netgear on the world’s first gigabit LTE mobile device, the Netgear MR1100 router, and...

Ericsson, Qualcomm, Telstra, Netgear partner on 5G ready router, network

Qualcomm, Telstra, Ericsson and Netgear announce world’s first gigabit class LTE device and gigabit-ready network HONG KONG – At the 4G/5G Summit today, Qualcomm announced it has worked with Telstra, Ericsson and Netgear on the world’s first gigabit LTE mobile device, the Netgear MR1100 router, and the...

Telia and Ericsson clock 15 Gbps in live 5G field trial in Sweden

Telia Company and Ericsson reached peak rates of 15 Gbps and a latency below 3 ms in a live 5G field trial in Sweden. Sweden-based Telia Company and Ericsson announced back in January their joint goal of making their homeland’s capital Stockholm – together with Estonia’s...

Vodafone and Nokia reach 5 Gbps in live public 5G trial in Australia

Vodafone Australia and Nokia clocked speeds of up to 5 Gbps and latency of 3 ms in a live public 5G trial in Sydney. Using 200 MHz of spectrum, Vodafone Australia and Nokia successfully conducted on Wednesday a live public 5G trial at Sydney’s University...

Ericsson cuts 3,000 jobs in Sweden, plans to recruit 1,000 in R&D

Telecommunications vendor Ericsson confirmed on Tuesday the company intends to cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden. It also plans to recruit 1,000 in R&D. Ericsson intends to cut 3,000 jobs in Sweden, the company announced on Tuesday morning. The telecommunications vendors employs today approximately 16,000 people in its...

Ericsson, Telstra test 5G trial system in Australia

A '5G' test took place in the city of Melbourne and used 800 megahertz of spectrum Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian telecommunications firm Telstra have carried out an outdoor test of a 5G trial system in Melbourne, Australia. The European company said the trial demonstrated 5G...

Ericsson, Telstra test 5G trial system in Australia

5G testing took place in the city of Melbourne and used 800 megahertz of spectrum Swedish vendor Ericsson and Australian telecommunications firm Telstra have carried out an outdoor test of a 5G trial system in Melbourne, Australia. The European company said that the trial demonstrated 5G...

Telstra to deploy 135 4G small cells in rural communities

4G small cells part of plan to cover 99% of the country by June 2017 Australian operator Telstra announced deployment of 135 small cells to provide 4G coverage to customers in more than 130 rural and regional communities across the country. This deployment is part of...

Reality Check: Could streaming video crash your mobile network?

With streaming video content delivery mechanisms hogging bandwidth and QoE, Flash Networks looks at potential solutions Video traffic is flooding mobile networks and the tsunami has only just begun. According to our customer data, mobile video traffic accounted for 55% of total mobile data traffic...

Verizon, Telstra, KT and EE form LTE-B Alliance

Verizon and partners form LTE-B Alliance in move to bolster device support for LTE Broadcast technology beginning in 2017 Verizon Communications and a trio of international carrier partners have thrown their considerable might behind the LTE Broadcast standard with the formation of an alliance focused...

Telstra network outages probed with vendor Ericsson

In the past two months, customers of Australian mobile carrier Telstra have experienced network outages of varying degrees of severity prompting Telstra and primary equipment vendor Ericsson to launch a review process. Last month, Telstra's 16.7 million customers lost voice and data service nationwide. According...

Ericsson, Quanta, AWS talk hyperscale datacenter

Open Compute Project becoming ‘de facto’ data center standard Ericsson is partnering with data center players Quanta and Amazon Web Services to extend the reach of its HDS8000 product; the telecom equipment vendor also joined the Open Compute Project, which provides a collaborative framework for...

Analyst Angle: Automation, small cells, and CA to increase network resource utilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13wjFG_T0Q A conversation with Stephen Howell, General Manager, Wireless Network, Engineering Department, Telstra Download a transcript of the interview and be the first to receive the smart RAN report Telstra has been very proactive in moving towards automated RAN optimization, small cells, and carrier aggregation (CA). In...

Telstra launches VoLTE and Cat 11, 600 Mbps hot spot

VoLTE is available across entire network while Cat 11 speeds are concentrated in major metros Australian carrier Telstra this week activated voice-over-LTE for LTE customers with compatible devices – the latest iPhone and Samsung devices for instance – under the brand name “4G Calling.” The plan...

Vodafone: Telstra is a ripoff; Telstra: You’re just jealous

Economic study backed by Vodafone reports Telstra customers paid a $2.4B ‘Telstra tax’ A recent study from the Centre for International Economics commissioned by Vodafone Hutchison Australia, found that Australian carrier Telstra, a major Vodafone competitor, excessively charges its customers. The study claims that Telstra business...

Reader Forum: SDN – taking the right path

Virtualizing server and storage resources to run private and hybrid clouds is an increasingly entrenched practice among Asia-Pacific businesses and government agencies. To empower greater capability from our robust and resilient networks, organizations are looking towards these new technologies to aid the reduction of...

Ericsson and Telstra partner on media delivery network

Australian operator is first to deploy new Ericsson platform Continuing its push into content delivery network services, Ericsson this week announced a deal with Telstra, the largest telecom and media company in Australia, to provide a managed content delivery solution. Telstra will be the first operator...

IBM, Telstra, Alcatel-Lucent, ON.Lab update SDN, NFV progress

IBM expanded its cloud data operations with its SoftLayer division opening of a second center in the Netherlands designed to support expansion of IBM Cloud services in the region. The new center in Almere is said to be securely connected by private network to all...

Crown Castle exploring sale of Australian towers

Crown Castle owns Down Under footprint of 1,800 towers Cellular infrastructure giant Crown Castle is considering a sale of its Australian tower assets, which comprise some 1,800 towers that support carriers Optus, Telstra and Vodafone Hutchison Australia. The company announced that it is exploring a sale...

Software: Telstra taps Matrixx for real-time charging solution; SA market set to soar

Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software”...

#TC32014 Telco case study: Evolving OSS/BSS

OSS/BSS doesn't exactly send a thrill through most audiences. "The three words that really put fear in the heart of people in Silicon Valley are 'telco billing software.' Tediously boring," Mark Sherman of Telstra Ventures joked at the recent Telecom Council Carrier Connections event. But Sherman,...

Telstra taps Ericsson, Ciena for optical, SDN, NFV

Telstra preps for SDN, NFV future Australian telecom giant Telstra said it will continue working with vendor Ericsson to supply optical transport equipment and services, as well as packet-optical platforms from Ciena in support of the carrier’s move toward virtualization. Telstra said the optical transport equipment...

Big data, analytics at TM Forum

Big data and analytics were top-of-mind at TM Forum's conference in Nice and across the industry this week, with several major platform announcements aimed at telcos. Steve Hateley, head of marketing at Comptel, told RCR Wireless News at the TM Forum event that there is a...